Using Information Space

Using information space
Qing

Stepped interaction:
Major issue: Navigation
Movement in physical spaces
When moving in an unstructured, unfamiliar and extensive physical space, attempting to reach a goal which may not be wholly formulated, a user will continually ask:
Where am I ?
Where can I go from here?
How do I get there?
What lies beyond ?
Where can I usefully go ?
Where have I been ? I want to go back

Two important features of movement in information space:
“Where can I go from here?”
is about a movement
“How do I get there?”
is about an interaction
Sensitivity
S = SM , SI

Examples of sensitivity
Physical Space
Information Space
Label ‘Café’ is the SM cue
The labels (Rail, Britain, etc.)
are the SM cues
Flat panel is the SI cue
(SI is an affordance)
Grey areas with inscribed text are the SI cues

The Attribute Explorer technique
Example: House purchase
one house

The Attribute Explorer
Example: House purchase

No sensitivity information
See and Go
NO SENSITIVITY
INFORMATION
Go and See
“tell me what you want and I’ll tell you if we’ve got it”
See and Go

More examples

At the end
Conduct user studies (Focus group, interview, etc)
Prototype evaluation (Between or Within groups)
Hopefully, SPSS tells us what significant is
End